# Portrait of Johannes Hudde

- By: Michiel van Musscher (Rotterdam, 1645–1705)
- Date: 1686
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: depth 6 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-C-528--b6edfab1e4f8049ddcf785e8b257f6a9)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/XhPSD/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Michiel van Musscher, a pupil of Gabriel Metsu, painted this portrait with great precision. The sitter, Johannes Hudde, wears a morning gown made of Chinese silk, known in Dutch as a ‘Japanse rok.’ While it was de rigueur to wear this type of garment around the house, it was also likely meant to reference his role as a Dutch East India Company (VOC) administrator. The large book on the table with the most important rights or charters of Amsterdam makes it clear that Hudde was also a burgomaster of that city.